Daily Cascade

From Past to Future

Prompt:
You have to have a past before you can have a future.
Write about this in your Blog Entry today.

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Donning a philosophical, analytical cap that is way too big for my head, I believe this quote digs deeper than the first thought that jumped into my mind: "Time moves forward."

Yes, time does move forward, and in addition, our past is our foundation--not that I think we are all built from stone and wood like a house. As human beings, however, our every experience, every mistake, every triumph builds us up. Without those, without a past, we'd end up becoming unthinking, unfeeling, useless organisms.

In the same vein, isn't it a hoot the way some of us try to escape from our pasts! Our pasts, as beautiful or as rotten as they may be, aren't just collections of memories. They are our teachers, and they are our blueprints and compasses to show us the way to the future to shape us into who we may become. From this angle, the quote isn't saying we're trapped by our past, but quite the opposite.

Don't we all remember an embarrassing situation that happened to us in school or in a crowded place? The relationships that didn't work out quite right? Our parents whom we thought of as sub-par? They taught us resilience and they became springboards that forced us to move or jump ahead. In other words, we have earned every scar for a reason: to face and be able to live in the future.

After all, our pasts should not weigh us down but give us the power and push to soar into the future.